Improvement in seeding-machines



M. D. WELLS. i Sed Dropper.

Paten ted Apr. 12, 1859.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES D. WELLS, OF MORGANTOWN, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23.630, dated April 12, 1859.

To all whom it may concerns Be it known that I, MosEs D. WELLs, of Morgantown, in the connty of Monongalia and State ot' Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Seeding-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the followingis afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, i'orning part of this specification, in the several figures of which similar characters of reference denote the same part.

Figure l is a top View of the seeder. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on a; x. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on y y.

This invention consists in a certain combination of devices pertaining to the discharge nechanisn, hereinafter to be set forth.

In the drawings, H is the hopper, and B the reciprocating bar, whose reciprocation is governed by the holes conneoting it with lever E. The har rests on a series of guides, c a, which run on the hotton of the hopper and, while giving ease of notion, prevent the breaking of seed, which ivariably work under the slide. The (1ischargc-perbrations b b have an upward rim the height of the guides a, so that when the discharge is through but a portion of them the seed will not flow from those nnder the bar. The bar is notched, as seen at D, and each notch contains a series of pins, c c. The seed is thus certain to he well agitated over the discharge-openings, and, moreover, these openings can never be choked by inpnrities in the grain of large size, such as straw and other litter.

I claim- The notches of the har, with the series of pins c therein, in eombination with the guides a a and upward-prcjecting rinis i of the discharge-openings I), substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ny hand before two witnesses. i

M. D. WELLS. Witnesses:

N. E. WELLS, M. HAYES. 

